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From: co20wta@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU (Bruce Jones)
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Subject: Re: news - then and now
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If you are really interested in this subject I can recommend a book.
It is titled _Discovering the News_ by Michael Schudson.  It is a
book about the rise of the penny press and the divorce of the press
in America from the political parties that backed them from
revolutionary times.  Very interesting reading.

Bruce